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Nas [1973-0] American

Rank: 10
Musician, Hip-hop artist

Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, better known by his stage name Nas /ˈnɑːz/, is an American hip hop recording artist, record producer, actor and entrepreneur.

Respect, Music, Morning, Time, Age, Amazing, Attitude, Best, Business, Chance, Dating, Experience, Government, Jealousy, Marriage, Politics, Power, Strength, War, Wisdom, Work

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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.		101
Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.	Music	102
I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?	Time	103
I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.	Business, Music, Time, Work	104
The things that I have said when I was young and curious about whatever the subject matter was, I respect those - those are growing pains. Even if you make mistakes, I go back to those things, my not-so-great moments because those are my truest moments; those are my human moments. I'm not even mad at the things I said that were a little dicey.	Respect	105
Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.	Experience	106
When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.	Respect	107
I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.		108
I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.		109
No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.		110
'Life Is Good' represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.		111
DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing... At the end of the day, it's up to us to control and to own hip-hop. DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.	Power	112
The flaws, the mistakes I make - that's the real me.		113
I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.		114
I'm not talking about Russia in my music. I've never been to Russia. I'm not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China. I'm talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.	Music	115
Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.	Best	116
I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.	Morning	117
I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.	Morning	118
You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.		119
I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art.		120
Your look reflects what's happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.		121
When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I've seen out there, you know, the things that's out there that ain't good for her. It's a crazy world we live in.		122
When I say 'hip-hop is dead,' basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.		123
I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We're warriors. Soldiers.	Government	124
With age comes common sense and wisdom.	Age, Wisdom	125
Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.		126
Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.		201
Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper - it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.		202
Calling Michelle 'Obama Barack's baby mama?' Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren't the only targets. Fox's pattern of race-baiting and fear-mongering regularly focuses on black leaders, black institutions and ordinary black people.		203
I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on.		204
All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.		205
I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.	Politics	206
I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.		207
I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.	Jealousy	208
I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can't ask for more than that.	Amazing	209
Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.		210
The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.		211
Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.	Attitude, War	212
Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.		213
I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.		214
I don't have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.		215
Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.		216
You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it's like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it. You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.		217
No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?		218
N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.		219
There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn't know how many people would respect it.	Respect	220
I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future. I'm a big fan of Common. I'm a big fan of Scarface; I'm a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to... well, there are a lot of people's music that I respect. I don't know who I will collaborate with, but there's a great chance of something happening.	Chance, Respect	221
My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.		222
I can't control what people think. They know who I am.		223
'Stillmatic' is the rebirth of 'Illmatic,' my first debut album to come out in 1994. 'Stillmatic' is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back.		224
Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.		225
Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.		226
I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.		301
I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.		302
To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.		303
Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.		304
I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.	Strength	305
I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.	Marriage	306
I've been called everything. Gangsta rap. I've been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that's on them.		307
Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.		308
We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow.		309
Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me - ever.		310
GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she's fearless and she's ahead of the game. She's ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.		311
Marley is someone before his time, man. He's - he's almost - he's like a deity, like almost, you know what I mean? I just talk about what's going on, but of course, you know, Bob, before rappers, was already laying that kind of thing down.		312
I see N.Y. hip-hop like I see N.Y. streets. N.Y. streets are grimy; it's a grind. N.Y. rappers are hustlers - whatever sound is in, we can adapt to that; there's nothing wrong with that.		313
My record company had to beg me to stop filmin' music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about, I had 'em out there.		314
Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.		315
I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.		316
Let's not forget, art can sell. You ain't gotta front all the time on your records.		317
Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.	Dating	318
I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They're here to criticize all of us. That's just how it is. We as MC's criticize each other. That's the nature of hip-hop.		319
I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.		320
It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.		321

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